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Autonomous sprayer making a spray application in an almond orchard.<br />
Autonomous sprayers.<br />
system. Understanding the labor challenge<br />
in California was not likely to<br />
improve, the logical move was to start<br />
working on a manufacturing facility to<br />
make the GUSS available for purchase<br />
to other growers looking to address<br />
operational needs.<br />
The <strong>2019</strong> labor survey conducted<br />
by the California Farm Bureau<br />
Federation and the University of<br />
California, Davis, found that 56<br />
percent of farmers who participated<br />
indicated an inability to find enough<br />
labor at some point over the past five<br />
years. Nearly a full 20 percent of all<br />
the farmers who participated in the<br />
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